240 papers on factor investing as a systematic trading strategy. Multi-factor portfolios, factor premia, factor timing and smart beta.
Also searched as: factor premia, multi-factor portfolios, smart beta, factor timing, factor zoo
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| A Common Rough Latent State in Conditional Factor Pricing: Rethinking the Fama-French Five-Factor Model by KamdemEquities | Equities | 2026 |
| Welcome to the Factor Zoo: Where Mutual Fund Alpha Hides by MalakhovEquities | Equities | 2026 |
| The Efficient Cross-Section is Sparse: Factor Timing and the Dimension of the SDF by MehrabiniaEquities | Equities | 2026 |
| Every Asset Its Own Benchmark: Market-Neutral Alpha in Perpetual Futures by MDEquities | Equities | 2026 |
| "Factor Investing with Climate: Engineer a ""Climate-Resilient"" Factor Portfolio for JSE" by MayambuEquities | Equities | 2026 |
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196 papersFactor investing in bonds and credit
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| Factor Timing; a Risk and Mispricing Approach by Botshekan and Rezayati | 0 | Linear factor models | 2025 |
| How to Construct a Long-Only Multifactor Credit Portfolio? by Blonk and Messow | 0 | | 2024 |
| Trading the Term Premium by van Schaik et al. | 0 | | 2023 |
| Factor Investing in Sovereign Bond Markets: Deep Sample Evidence by Baltussen et al. | 3 | | 2021 |
| A Factor Approach to Smart Beta Development in Fixed Income by Staal et al. | 1 | | 2015 |
| Optimal Investment Strategies with a Heath-Jarrow-Morton Term Structure of Interest Rates by Munk and Sørensen | 4 | | 1999 |
Factor investing in multi-asset
5 papersFactor investing in volatility and options
4 papersFactor investing in crypto
2 papersFactor investing in currencies
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| RavenPack Quantitative Research: Enhancing Currency Risk Premia with RavenPack FX Sentiment Factors by Hafez et al. | 0 | | 2025 |
| Smart Currency Hedging for Smart Beta Global Equities by De Boer | 0 | | 2014 |
Factor investing in commodities
1 paperFactor investing, no asset class named
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| A New Metric for Smart Beta: Factor Exposure per Unit of Tracking Error by Bender et al. | 0 | | 2019 |
| Can the Whole Be More Than the Sum of the Parts? Bottom-Up Versus Top-Down MultiFactor Portfolio Construction by Bender and Wang | 1 | | 2019 |
| Thematic Indexing, Meet Smart Beta! Merging ESG into Factor Portfolios by Bender et al. | 8 | | 2019 |
| Time-Series Variation in Factor Premia: The Influence of the Business Cycle by Polk et al. | 9 | | 2019 |
| When Factor Timing Makes Sense by Barekat | 0 | | 2019 |
| Risk and Mispricing in Estimated Alphas by Hill-Kleespie | 0 | Linear factor models | 2017 |
| Timing is Money: The Factor Timing Ability of Hedge Fund Managers by Osinga et al. | 2 | | 2016 |
| Is Smart Beta Dumb? by Pal | 2 | | 2015 |
| Smart Beta 2.0: A Disruptive Innovation by Vannelli et al. | 0 | | 2015 |
| Save the Trading Costs: Simple and Intuitive Rule for Smart Beta Strategy by Minami and Wakatsuki | 1 | | 2014 |
| Bayesian Model Averaging in Multi-Factor Markets by Franke | 1 | Bayesian +1 | 2011 |
| Does Factor Timing Explain Hedge Fund Alpha? by Park | 3 | Linear factor models | 2011 |
| Risk Factor and Liquidity Timing: A Short-Term Approach by Winter | 0 | State-space models | 2011 |
| Capacity and Factor Timing Effects in Active Portfolio Management by Ciccotello et al. | 6 | | 2009 |
| The Fama-French Model: A Proven Alternative for the CAPM - Also in Germany by Vogler | 1 | Linear factor models | 2008 |
Papers on factor investing from other families
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| The Performance of Asset Allocation Mutual Funds by Yin et al. | Market timing and tactical asset allocation | 2024 |
| Factor-Targeted Asset Allocation (Presentation Slides) by Lee and Salerno | Portfolio optimization | 2022 |
| My Factor Philippic by Asness | Value investing | 2016 |
| Active Allocation of Smart Beta Indices Based on Factor Timing and Regime Switching by Gkatzilakis and Sivasubramanian | Macro signals and regime strategies | 2015 |
| Many Risks, One (Optimal) Portfolio by Homescu | Portfolio optimization | 2014 |
| Timing Foreign Exchange Markets by Malone et al. | Market timing and tactical asset allocation | 2012 |